• AGM@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    Stirring up nationalist sentiments with the idea of an outside threat to make yourself the national champion and having a populace rally behind you with their political support as they huddle under the flag is incredibly powerful in electoral politics, but politics for the public and politics behind closed doors with powerful stakeholders are never the same.

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      1 day ago

      with the idea of an outside threat to make yourself the national champion

      That threat isn’t one of Carney’s (or even Trudeau’s) making.

      • patatas@sh.itjust.works
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        18 hours ago

        A threat so menacing that our government is actively taking steps to integrate defence systems more deeply and hand resource extraction rights to them